Academic EnglishLori currently specializes in helping high-intermediate to advanced English students (B1-C1) perfect their language skills, but has also worked with low-intermediate and non-literate students as well.
She regularly teaches reading/writing classes and listening/speaking classes, and has also taught a variety of electives, including Learning English Through Pop Music (a course she created), Preparation for Undergraduate Studies, IELTS Preparation, and Handwriting and Vocabulary. She ran a popular weekly drop-in grammar clinic for students as well. HONORS COLLEGEBecause of her widely recognized teaching skill, Lori was asked to teach a required course in the George Mason University Honors College, Reading in the Arts. Drawing on her experience as a poet, she fashioned her section into a survey of contemporary poetry with a creative writing component. The class proved popular even among students with little to no background in creative writing or poetry and is now part of the Honors College's regular offerings.
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Lori holds a Master's in Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language and has worked at George Mason University as an English instructor for international students since 2013. She has also worked in similar programs at Virginia Tech and Georgetown University. She won the INTO Mason Linda Schwartzstein Faculty Excellence Award both in 2019 and in 2021, and the John Pope Service Award in 2021.
Before focusing on ESL, Lori developed and led train-the-trainer workshops for a national AmeriCorps program designed to teach farmworkers how to protect themselves from pesticides. She also taught children for years in a variety of settings, including as a preschool music and movement teacher, a drama consultant for kindergarteners, a substitute teacher, and a Girl Scout Leader. Building on her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College in Creative Writing, her years of publishing pieces in literary journals and anthologies, and her work as a Visiting Poet for Arlington County Public Schools, Lori was also accepted to the George Mason University MFA Creative Writing program in Poetry in 2020 and is in her final year of studies. |
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